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Biodegradable Organic Matter

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Biodegradable organic matter is organic material, plant, and animal matter with origin in living organisms, which can be converted by the action of microorganisms to water, carbon dioxide, and/or methane and biomass.

Organic materials can be used to obtain biodegradable polymers which are classified according to the method of production or their source (Fig. 1):

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Biodegradable polymers

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  1. LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Isabel Coelhoso

  2. UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Filomena Freitas & Maria A. M. Reis

  3. LEAF – Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Portugal

    Vitor D. Alves

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Coelhoso, I., Freitas, F., Alves, V.D., Reis, M.A.M. (2012). Biodegradable Organic Matter. In: Drioli, E., Giorno, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Membranes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40872-4_52-1

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